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The Big Marsh the story of a lost landscape
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Title
The Big Marsh [electronic resource] : the story of a lost landscape / Cheri Register.
ISBN
0873519965
9780873519960
0873519957
9780873519953 (paper : alkaline paper)
Published
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (271 pages )
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
"A rural community is changed forever when moneyed interests conspire to transform a treasured wetland"-- Provided by publisher.
"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Ecology and Evolution.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Part I: The Lay of the Land
Hollandale : An Introduction
Freeborn County : Home, but No Biome
Looking for the Big Marsh
Part II: Life on the Big Marsh
No Empty Landscape
The Grid That Turned Land to a Commodity
Homing on the Marsh : The Speers
The Trip from Otranto Revisited
Claiming the High Ground : The Ostranders
Hazards
What Counts as a Lake?
The Evolution of the Drainage Ditch
A Watershed Year : 1877
A New Home on the Prairie : A Speculation
Fire on the Marsh
Part III: The Big Ditch
The Alleged Conniver : Putnam Dana McMillan
The First Drainage
The Middle Man : William A. Morin
Robert Speer Travels through Time
Eighteen Yoke of Oxen
"The Great Ricelawn Ranch"
A Change of Hands Bodes a Change of Lands
What's Black and White and Grazes All Over?
The Second Try
New Man About Town : John Felix Dryden Meighen
The People Protest
How to Read a Flying Bundle of Twine
A Lone Voice for the Environment : Fred McCall
Counterarguments
The Moscow Farm Prospers
Meighen in Court and Courting
The Winning Strategy
Rice Lake and the Big Marsh Go Down the Drain
The Swamp Angel Plays Cupid
The New Model Farmer
The Victor's History
The Mysterious Fall of Bryant Barber and Other Endings
Part IV: Restoration and Restitution
From Booty to Beauty
Wo Wacintanka
For the Birds.
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